Hospital Senior Director of Nursing, Medicine
About The Position
NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center offering sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care across numerous medical and surgical specialties. As a major regional healthcare resource, it is deeply committed to medical education and research, providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services. NYU Langone Health prioritizes equity and inclusion, aiming to create an environment where talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive by embracing individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. This role involves providing clinical leadership and management for designated care areas on a 24-hour basis, aligning with the philosophy, goals, and mission of NYU Langone Health. The successful candidate will assume responsibility and accountability for all aspects of nursing practice and performance within their designated areas, ensuring the achievement of organizational goals and targets. This position also entails leading large-scale organizational change efforts and fostering an environment of excellence in patient/family service, staff development, quality nursing care, and staff engagement and satisfaction.
Requirements
- Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in New York State.
- Doctoral degree (PhD or DNP) in clinical nursing practice or research required.
- Certification in nursing leadership required.
- Ability to apply nursing process toward achievement of specific outcomes in an organized fashion to address patient/family satisfaction and quality indicators.
- Excellent communication (both oral and written), interpersonal, organization, critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills.
- Minimum 5 years Leadership or supervisory experience.
Nice To Haves
- Pertinent clinical knowledge preferred.
Responsibilities
- Fosters a culture embedded in NYU's tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover.
- Designs, implements, and evaluates programs for multiple nursing units or departments, providing executive leadership to ensure compliance with accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards, and policies at all levels.
- Collaborates with the interprofessional team, leading the nursing division to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency, and develops strategic partnerships across disciplines.
- Oversees the development and implementation of interdisciplinary outcome standards and leads quality and performance improvement projects.
- Fosters positive and productive work and care environments based on diversity, equity, and inclusion to attract and retain staff, with a commitment to engaging and recognizing staff.
- Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development.
- Conducts interviews, hires, develops, and evaluates departmental leadership according to established standards.
- Evaluates the performance of personnel in a fair and transparent manner.
- Serves as a role model by demonstrating visibility, accessibility, and effective communication that conveys advocacy and support for staff and leadership.
- Establishes a financial plan and utilizes data for strategic decisions, designing operational and capital budgets, monitoring expenses, and evaluating outcomes.
- Coordinates care delivery using labor productivity data to plan and evaluate staffing patterns, discharge, and volume targets, guiding clinical leaders in staffing validation.
- Holds self and others accountable for exemplary care delivery in a cost-efficient manner.
- Coordinates and facilitates activities to promote service and interdisciplinary teamwork, role-modeling service standards.
- Develops, approves, and implements nursing and organizational policy, incorporating shared governance principles.
- Collects, analyzes, and utilizes data to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics.
- Drives staff involvement in nursing research and evidence-based practice efforts.
- Fosters high reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure.
- Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with all stakeholders.
- Fosters a culture of inquiry, innovation, and transformation with a focus on the future.
- Leads and supports the development of new insights to complex situations, innovative designs, and programs/processes.
- Responsible for maintaining knowledge and ensuring compliance with the current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and responding timely to Step 2 grievances.
Benefits
- Financial security benefits
- Generous time-off program
- Employee resource groups for peer support
- Holistic employee wellness program focusing on physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
